I FLIPPED MY BED LINER ON MY ENDER S1 AND USED 35 GRIT MEDIUM HARD JUST 10 SECONDS OF SANDING AND THE POLYCARBONATE STUCK PERFECT NOT TO WELDED ON AND DID NOT BREAK OFF !! USED YOUR ENCLOSURE IDEA AND I WAS MELTY FOR THE FIRST 3 TRIES AND REDUCED THE HEAT BY 2 DEGREES UNTILL IT HARDENED TO MUCH THEN INCREASED TEMP BY 1 DEGREE THEN .5 DEGREE !!! WORKS PERFECT NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THAT EASY !! NO GASSES YET I'M STILL PRINTING SMALL!!! THINK I WAS AT 254.5 JUST CHECKED THE SETTINGS AND IT SAYS 256 C THANKS FOR THE VID!!!
@user-hb1od4gu3n3 ай бұрын
Hi bro Can you explain encoders pin? I have dc motor encoder gja370-25 6 wires How can i use it to do the same project I will add your name in preferences
@dadoVRC4 ай бұрын
That's why on my conversion I'm using tapered roller ones.😁
@michaelhofmann50915 ай бұрын
Hey man I got x-Toaster also, are you still happy with it, what are some modifications you did since? cheers!
@pawel1025 ай бұрын
@Loopyengineeringco Hi i work in bicycle shop. Enduro bearing with "MAX" in the name, they are not designed for full rotation, only up to approximately 45°.
@stefanguiton5 ай бұрын
Great video!
@irfansensoy59016 ай бұрын
Hello. There are 3 pzem-004t v3 in my project and I am trying to get data with nodemcu. I can retrieve data for each pzem one by one without any problems. However, when I connect to D3 and D4 pins, whether I define an address or not, only the last address is returned and mostly data is missing. Can I have your code that shows the sensor readings except the important parts?
@harmac5217 ай бұрын
the governor system is a deterrent for me to try this 😂
@Loopyengineeringco7 ай бұрын
The simple standard mechanical governor is definitely easier 🤣 but no auto-start, rpm vs coolant temp control, no oil pressure protection etc etc
@giuseppetesta-dp6lb7 ай бұрын
How did you manage to pass the video receptors under the cross table? I'm working on a similar project, but I can't get the life die and the sphere circle to pass under the cross table. Could you give me your WhatsApp or an email and send me the photos below the table if possible? Thank you very much
@jocktigernuts6808 ай бұрын
Fine but why the need for the nauseating music? It’s a generator!!
@googoostoned9 ай бұрын
Awesome video. I am looking for a simple solution PZEM-004T with Microcontroller WT32-ETH01 and ESPHOME but cannit make it work. Could somebody assist?
@Loopyengineeringco9 ай бұрын
Thanks! I haven't used Esphome myself yet: because it's a pre-built swiss knife you don't have access to the actual code, any hardware other than what's in the tutorials will be a challenge to get working. I have seen some people have success with the Wemos D1 + pzem on the home assistant forums. It wouldn't take very much work to adapt my code to have it working - where are you trying to send the pzem data?
@jonathandrwal36569 ай бұрын
i been watching videos for designs to kinda see what i should do with my specific machine, yours is simple and i love it
@muzzarobbo10 ай бұрын
curious if you have issues with the green spindle running it at high speed, i have a similar one and they are only rated to 3 or 5k rpm. i am a bit scared to gear my treadmill motor so that it can spin the spindle at ~8k rpm, lots of spinny stuff close to my head haha
@Loopyengineeringco10 ай бұрын
I wrote a whole reply about the treadmill motor & then re-read your commment 🤣With the green spindle, I think it has the tapered bearings in one of the ends which limit it's RPM, they generate a lot more heat than the 'fast' ones (deep groove/angular contact). As long as you keep an eye on the temperature, it'll be ok. I run it at around 5000 for the longer jobs & faster for the short ones. You can also replace the bearings for faster ones, but the spindle probably isn't balanced to run much higher so you might find some vibrations starting to creep in at higher RPMs.
@muzzarobbo10 ай бұрын
love it! i recently made a manual mill in my driveway with some 200x200x16mm steel tube offcuts i got for $60 and then a free treadmill motor. similar spindle and xy table too. but i got some bosch 35mm linear rails for free from uni for my z axis!
@Loopyengineeringco10 ай бұрын
Nice! Man, i need to get some linear rails for my Z as well. It's really holding everything back. Saving in progress!
@user-km6gg2ov5n10 ай бұрын
Love it
@GarreTTTurncoaT11 ай бұрын
That is a beautiful setup!
@gtcollection693311 ай бұрын
A pair of angular contact bearings opposite one another is normally what machine-tool builders use in higher-end blocks.
@lawmate11 ай бұрын
Great job. With your nut, you should make it have another boss extend beyon the one that locates it in the slitting blade, that locates in the toolholder. That way you will perfectly center the the blade and there's no chance it will slip in a heavy cut. If the chips dont clear and the teeth get clogged up, there is a lot of force on the blade
@Loopyengineeringco11 ай бұрын
I see what you mean, that's a good idea. I originally (naively!) thought that the bore size in the toolholder is the major diameter of the M12 thread, so it will locate. But in reality, there is a bit of clearance. It's very small though, so would be tricky to turn. The shoulder that slips into the bore would probably have to be only 0.2mm or so. Currently, the saw can stall my 1.5kw (geared) spindle, so I'll leave this job for when it has enough power to slip the saw blade.
@lawmate11 ай бұрын
@@Loopyengineeringco Yeah the adapter you have is a standard type, they're called screw on adapters. Cutwel and WNT sell them in the UK but they're a lot more pricey than from China. The M12 ones have a 12.5mm bore. This is to precisely locate the head that gets screwed in to be concentric. I just made a screw in adapter for slitting saw also, but for a cat40 adapter with an M16 thread. They have a 17mm bore, so there's a little more room for a spacer. Maybe a better way is to buy a shoulder bolt that has an M12 thread, which should have a 16mm shoulder. Turn this down to 12.5mm, then have you washer bore precisely fit into that. I use lots of sizes of saws. The smaller they are, the more rigid, so always try and use the smallest possible for the job. The one use the most is a PHorn 939 one. The cutting blade is solid carbide and the tool shank is solid carbide. For the smaller cuts, the PHorn stuff is great and there's a lot of things on ebay
@asadshaikh506711 ай бұрын
Hi, I am Newbie in These Things I want use 3 Pzem with Esp8266, Is It Possible to do, If Not Then Which Microcontroller would be best (must have Wifi)
@Loopyengineeringco11 ай бұрын
The board I use in the video is based on Esp32, which is just a faster, better, dual core version of the 8266. My board has ethernet, but you can modify the code for wifi, it's very similar you just add your ssid & pass in the sketch. Have a look at some esp32 WiFi mqtt code examples and compare with mine. You can piece it together with a bit of effort 🙂
@DieselRamcharger11 ай бұрын
they do make 4 point contact angular bearings that are good for load in both directions. fyi
@vhospher6463 Жыл бұрын
Your channel deserves more subs! Thanks for posting this, about to do the same. Great content, keep them coming! Particularly impressed with the mill!
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I'm glad you're finding the videos interesting 🙂
@ThrashyB Жыл бұрын
The best explanation of preloading a bearing block on the internet.. hands down.. incredible presentation sir.
@mattivirta Жыл бұрын
10 year and not has can build better big work shop, lazy or why not clean all trash out have lot biggest work area.
@ollied1981 Жыл бұрын
I used those same Enduro bearings with a spacer for my machine, but I also used a stack of Belleville washers under the nut to make it easier to set the preload. Also I've got two ballnuts back to back on each ballscrew again using stacks of Belleville washers to preload them against eachother. I've used it a lot over the last year and a half and still no backlash 😎
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Nice! Great idea to use the washers.
@tomahawkcnc5583 Жыл бұрын
Quality thrust bearing assembly comes with angular contact bearings . Cheap Chinese copies use cheap bearings as they are a clone not engineered.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Yep, buy cheap buy twice. Or modify forever 🤣
@kusler67 Жыл бұрын
This will be known as "that video I made before I lost my hand"
@philippwetter Жыл бұрын
Apart from backlash, still very impressive though considering its made from various bare minimal scrap!
@rengankrishnaiyer6912 Жыл бұрын
Very cool sir, ingenious!
@icarus_ap Жыл бұрын
where did you get the bearing from
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
www.wychbearings.co.uk in the UK. They were 7001-2RS MAX Enduro Angular Contact Bearing 12x28x8. Not ultra precision or anything fancy, but theyre doing a great job 👍
@silverghost3506 Жыл бұрын
i replaced mine with angular contact bearings on those..
@qazzxc8813 Жыл бұрын
disaster in electric cabinet
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
yep - it's all cheap, what do you want from me 🤣 Plan is to fix everything with time, with appropriate layout, contactors, SSRs, modbus expanders, etc once I know what I want in there.
@qazzxc8813 Жыл бұрын
@@Loopyengineeringco if work now u never fix this haha
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
@@qazzxc8813 🤫🤣
@Agent0004 Жыл бұрын
I vote option B with the tool changer 👌
@lucasandri5462 Жыл бұрын
I really like your cnc mill. On the next project I think the x and z movements on the spindle is a better option, it gives you more room for improvement and a larger working area.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
I'm thinking this too... Maybe the super big linear guides will help it cope with the weight 🤔
@lucasandri5462 Жыл бұрын
@@Loopyengineeringco I think so. If you make the spindle mount sturdy enough you shouldn't have a lot of rigidity problems.
@sdqf Жыл бұрын
Cool!
@annaarz5353 Жыл бұрын
what was the price total?
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Here's a breakdown, I built this literally over 10 years so I might be forgetting some stuff Steel beams (used over-estimating slightly): 100 Steel stock (new, mainly for Z): 100 treadmill motor: 36 speed controller: 60 milling table: 120 ballscrews SFU1605: roughly 160 Pulleys, belts:30 Intel BLKD510MO (has native LPT) had the HDD from old laptop: 40 19" display, mouse, keyboard: had Electrical enclosure: 40 Control switches, wiring, header cables, 3d filament etc 70 Nema 23 steppers, drivers & PSU: 200 DM2282 230v stepper driver: 137.00 230v stepper motor: 40 1,137 (gbp)
@haydenc2742 Жыл бұрын
Could you put an actual thrust bearing in there?
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Yep you could: it would be the best thing for purely thrust loads but you might have a bit of radial play and eventually radial wear if you're using belts and pulleys with a bit of tension like I have
@neffk Жыл бұрын
I like the closed frame. Swapping X and Y makes no difference, as long as your controller knows what to do. Have you considered some guarding for your XY table? Everything lasts longer if you can keep tiny hot bits of metal away. For Z, some grooves in the plastic might help distribute grease. Honestly, it all looks useful. Best way to show it off is to mill something. Looking forward to future videos.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thanks! You make a good point: I started using it and pretty soon realised it won't last very long with all that crap building up. I built a flood cooling enclosure so the X/Y table is now protected (I have a video on that). It's been working non stop for the past few weeks so I have a lot of updates, will post a video up once I collect enough video so it's watchable without too much rambling 😂
@samrix5793 Жыл бұрын
Recently found your channel enjoying your videos!
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Will keep them coming :-)
@samrix5793 Жыл бұрын
Any videos of it milling?
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Will do an update in a few weeks once I have some video to show
@samrix5793 Жыл бұрын
Great job!
@WilliamHollinger2019 Жыл бұрын
I am extremely new to this I want to build a generator because store brought ones are expensive. I would love to see if I could build one for emergency use. I am going to use a vertical engine and an alternator of a old car or brand new.
@raytruck5799 Жыл бұрын
Your batteries appear wired series parallel. Common mistake. Fix that.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
I wanted to be able to charge them from a car alternator, so it's a 12v system, so they're in parallel.
@dantronics1682 Жыл бұрын
Good video, Its nice to see that the alternator is inline with the engine, This shows originality, Everyone else who makes a video with an engine/alternator just copy each other without knowing why, Its a bit like the rocket stoves videos, the inverter is only showing the killer watt hours that it produce but fuel is still been used when the batteries are charge and nothing plugged in.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thanks, yeah I wanted to do this for neater packaging. I think the usual problem is that alternators are directional due to the sweep of the fan blades behind the pulley. But my particular ones are straight/symmetrical so it doesn't care which way it's rotated 👍
@MakeTechPtyLtd Жыл бұрын
Cool upgrade.
@diego.almeida Жыл бұрын
Before tramming the spindle, you need to make sure your Z-axis travels perpendicular to the table (XY axes). Tramming is the last thing you do, actually, first you make sure your X and Y axis are parallel to the Z carriage (most likely you'll need to shim under the table as well), then you check the Z axis perpendicularity to the table, you do that by placing a precision square (one that you trust it's square) or one of those 123 block on the table and attach the indicator to the Z carriage with the needle touching the precision square, then move the Z axis up and down and read the value, do it along both the X and Y axes. Only then you tram the spindle, and it's best that you use the XY coordinate table you mounted the vice on as the base to touch the indicator, this big slab of steel probably isn't ground flat, so it's introducing more error to the reading. It's a nice machine nonetheless, I'm going to build mine soon too, with a similar frame.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thank you, the spindle housing has some ground surfaces on the sides so I did measure the spindle housing against the z axis travel and it was near enough there (hard to tell as I didn't have any perfectly straight square bar to clamp against it), so as long as the spindle axis is aligned to it's housing from factory (🤞) it should be ok. And if the spindle axis is perpendicular to the plate, then I'm ok - that was my thinking. You're right about the remaining things that stack on top - I'm sure there's less alignment now with the vise on it etc. When you build yours, be sure to post videos 👍👌
@diego.almeida Жыл бұрын
I've been thinking about creating linear rails using those steel angles, but I was going to use some thin gibs of UHMW polymer to reduce friction, since UHMW is second to teflon in friction coefficient, and has higher abrasion resistance. But the problem with those type of linear guides, like dovetail, is that it has to be ground to be accurate enough. Search for UHMW slippery tape, maybe you could use that to reduce friction and make it slide more easily. I think concrete is a more cost-effective alternative to epoxy granite to fill the machine bed, if you look at the Loss Coefficient vs Young's Modulus chart, concrete has about the same vibration dampening quality as epoxy granite, while having larger modulus of elasticity and being way cheaper. Langmuir is using concrete in its new machine MR-1 CNC Gantry Mill.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I've not heart of uhmw before. I might investigate this for the next iteration. Sounds useful for all kinds of sliding things. Filling with concrete was the plan originally, but it's not reversible whereas I can pull the sand out (with difficulty😅) if I might decide to go with epoxy one day so I figured I'll try it!
@perspectivex Жыл бұрын
that's cool, nice organically grown cnc. Thanks for the tour. How did you tram/square the z-axis?
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Thanks! That's in progress :-). There will be a video. Spoiler: coke can shims & lots.of repetition 😂
@andremedeiros7113 Жыл бұрын
Hello. I want to connect the PZEM to a regular ESP32 via the RX2 and TX2 ports. Is a 5v to 3.3v voltage converter needed?
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Sorry for the late reply! Yes: the PZEM is 5v so either logic level shifters, or you can use simple pulldown resistors on the rx/rx lines. Some people report the shifting not necessary, but that's luck and eventually the ESP ports will fail.
@brihan24 Жыл бұрын
you should have just put jumper from your car to the batteries and skipped all the farbrication stuff, would be a lot quieter and probably just as good on gas with all the time and money you would have saved anyhow. I dunno, maybe that's cool, what you did. but yeah there a lot easier ways to build a power generator if you just look around.
@Loopyengineeringco Жыл бұрын
Alternators on cars are small. This alternator is from a bus/truck, so an idling 4L engine is nowhere near as fuel efficient as a small single cylinder in it's happy zone, watt for watt. But you're right, it's a lot easier. I did this for a while, when the generator was broken and it works.
@lesthompson5907 Жыл бұрын
very well done, I built my first DC generator 30 Years a go . i was taking about it in a forum On you tube. Back then i was born on a of grid property & my first generator was a dynamo of a lorry. & I built it . to charge a battery bank that was power with wood gas, the control unit of my day was the vibrating mantic flucs regulated. used in the day to charge up car's & loris In realty todays alternators now com couplet with a built in control box rectifier The intrudingly . thing was that todays invites convert DC in TO AD power to day in my day the modern day. for me we lit our house on bottled gas. But we used the demand suppled by the DC battery bank light our house & in my day we had 12'volt bulbs used in garages which was the existent of our limited siystom. untill,12volt black & whit VT came along & we could ues them to power the TV of the battery bank in 1964 until then if we power a TV that run of the mains it was a stranded "40 genset we used a villas set in my day . i used the same siystom on the Dc genitor to power my batteries with wind divined & dermo slow in low wind, But very effective in the winter months. I must say to see you youngster's Redeveloping the hid dear is intrusting & the dc Generator will get you out of a fix. in this modern age. & given the present Availability of the Invert. Generating with the modem day alternator . would seem to make it a breeze. yes well done , Les Thompson